Solo And Chamber Works. Par KURTAG GYORGY. Signs, Games and Messages are series for solo instruments and small chamber ensembles. Each of the three notions refers to an essential factor in Kurtág’s music. Signs ties it with the composer’s period of study in Paris as a young man, when he could not compose, merely put graphic signs on the paper. Games links with his nine-volume series for the piano …

Par GYORFFY ISTVAN. Hungarian-style dance music which flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries - generally referred to as ungaresca - represents a valuable part of European musical tradition. István Gyorffy's work (2007-2010) is a late successor of this tradition. It was written with the intention of embodying the eastern-central European tradition in order to present an alternative to the curren…

The work was composed in 1992 for the 85th birthday of Kurtág's teacher, Sándor Veress. The ensemble of instruments is unusual: two basset horns and two quarter-tone pianos (the well-known predecessor of the latter is Charles Ives' Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for two pianos). The special tuning in this case is not that the tonality moves in an ultra-chromatic direction, rather that it makes the cont…

Comme le volume des quatuors facile, celui-ci contient aussi des séquences de danse composées de plusieurs mouvements. Outre ces mouvements de danse populaire (deux danses renaissance, trois valses), cette publication fournit également aux utilisateurs plus vastes pièces de caractère à un niveau intermédiaire. Dans les mouvements comme, par exemple, Soirée carillons, Hobgoblin, la bergère et le co…

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Composed in 1959, the wind quintet represents the second phase in the process started in Kurtág's compositional activity by the String Quartet. A lengthy stay in Paris (studies with Milhaud and Marianne Stein), acquaintance with 20th century music other than Bartók's induced Kurtág to radically reevaluate his oeuvre. The new artistic orientation that resulted from that reeva…

for bassoon, violoncello and piano or two violoncellos and piano. Par BELLA MATE. A special piece - a special story: In 2020, a renowned architect approached a composer to create a new piece of music for his daughter's wedding, which the happy father could give to the young couple as a wedding present. In earlier eras of private patronage, such a story would have been natural, but in the 21st cent…

Par WOLF PETER. In his Sonata, Péter Wolf puts his style well-known from the character pieces of his previous piano series (Wolf-temperiertes Klavier, Jazz preludes) in the service of a demanding form. We can recognize the style that can be traced back to jazz and Bartók, the characters that tap like a toccata or swirl like perpetual motion, the singing lyrical melodies or even such playful turns …

Arrangeur: Agnes Lakos. Pedal use is a fundamental part of expressive piano playing. But proper pedalling skills are not easy to acquire. Thus, it is important that piano students become acquainted with the use of the three pedals as early as possible. The stopgap Introduction to Pedalling is a collection of pieces adapted to all levels of manual dexterity, enabling learners to improve their maste…

Bass Trombone and Piano. Par NAULAIS JEROME. Une pièce enjouée et rythmée pour une audition ou un examen de Cycle II - Formation : Musique de Chambre, Duo, Solo and Accompagnement Piano - Instrumentation : 1 Trombone Basse 1 Piano - Niveau de Difficulté : 4/6 - Intermédiaire/Avancé - Durée : 4 mn 50 s - Style Musical : Classique, Pédagogique - Catégorie : Composition Originale - Compositeur : Jero…

Horn and Piano. Par NAULAIS JEROME. Une pièce enjouée et rythmée pour une audition ou un examen de Cycle II - Formation : Musique de Chambre, Duo, Solo and Accompagnement Piano - Instrumentation : 1 Cor en Fa 1 Piano - Niveau de Difficulté : 4/6 - Intermédiaire/Avancé - Durée : 4 mn 50 s - Style Musical : Classique, Pédagogique - Catégorie : Composition Originale - Compositeur : Jerome NAULAIS - /…

Brass Quintet. Par NAULAIS JEROME. Une pièce enjouée et rythmée - Formation : Musique de Chambre, Quintette - Instrumentation :Quintette de Cuivres : 2 Trompettes Sib 1 Cor en Fa 1 Trombone 1 Tuba - Niveau de Difficulté : 4/6 - Intermédiaire/Avancé - Durée : 4 mn 50 s - Style Musical : Classique - Catégorie : Composition Originale - Compositeur : Jérôme NAULAIS - / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé …

The latest volume of Chamber Music for Violoncellos contains four sacral works, two of which were arranged for cello quartet by the editor of the series, Árpád Pejtsik. Both Angelus!, Liszt's piano piece of ethereal beauty, and the Kyrie of Mozart's Requiem, an irresistibly surging four-part fugue, are magnificent when played with the immensely rich sound of the four cellos. The second part of the…

Par NAULAIS JEROME. Une pièce enjouée et rythmée pour une audition ou un examen de Cycle II - Formation : Musique de Chambre, Duo, Solo and Accompagnement Piano - Instrumentation : 1 Clarinette Sib 1 Piano - Niveau de Difficulté : 4/6 - Intermédiaire/Avancé - Durée : 4 mn 50 s - Style Musical : Classique, Pédagogique - Catégorie : Composition Originale - Compositeur : Jerome NAULAIS - / Niveau : I…

Par BALAZS ARPAD. With its energetic impetus and brilliant instrumentation, Concertino is outstanding in the oeuvre of Árpád Balázs. Among his compositions for concert band, it is by far the most engaging and demanding work. Passing away and a will to live are simultaneously present in Concertino, which Árpád Balázs composed in memory of his beloved father. Its structure brings Liszt's Hungarian R…